Meeting My Book For The First Time
book delivery
Look at This Baby Just Delivered to My Publisher
Fresh off the press. A few weeks early. Can. Not. Wait.
Thrilling To Hear My Characters Speak
Casting voices for audio version of WHAT WAS MINE. Not casting, exactly. Author doesn't get to sit in on casting. But listening to voice samples for various characters and pinching
Labor Pains
Working on second pass pages this weekend. What are second pass pages, you may ask? I wondered, too. I thought my last chance to make changes were first pass pages,
Which Face Would You Buy A Book From?
This is the day I decide on my author pic. The (wonderful) photographer John Gruen sent over (digital) contacts this morning. He provided headshots with several different expressions and backgrounds, having posed
Another Fun Thing About Writing A Novel: Choosing Dates
August 10. This is an important date in my novel. It's the date of the "inciting incident", as they call it in craft workshops: the action that sets the story going.
MFA vs. AWP
Attending my first AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference in Minneapolis last weekend, I realized I might have saved a shipload of time and money if, instead of
What My Cover Designer Couldn’t Have Known
What I love about the cover art is that it's not retro, not modern, not set in any decade at all, which accomplishes the feat of capturing a novel that